[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#625820: Please let the user know when fsck'ing while booting -> machine looks dead

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Fri May 6 19:34:59 UTC 2011


[Tomas Pospisek]
> My boot here goes like this:
> 
> 1. bios screen
> 2. grub menu with the Debian background with the rocket
> 3. press return on the first menu entry
> 4. screen switches to black only
> 5. "Loading, please wait..." apears
> 6. screen switches to black only without nothing on it
> 7. after a while the gdm login screen apears with the Debian
>    background with the rocket
> 
> The machine went ''dead'' (probably doing a loooooong fsck) after
> point 6.

This reminds me of a problem I saw with HP Compaq 6910p and the Ubuntu
installer.  I had to use an external screen to see the installation
output.  I suspect it was a bug in the kernel triggered by the video
card.

I suspect this bug really is in the kernel, and only affect some video
cards.  Which video card are you using?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen





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